Walk off The Earth’s Sarah Blackwood Was Kicked Off A Plane For Her Crying Toddler

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"They told me that if I couldn’t control my child then they’d have to turn the plane around."

Walk off the Earth’s Sarah Blackwood boarded a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Vancouver, only to be kicked off for her “crying fussy baby.”

In a recent interview with Today’s Parent, she shared her experience with flight attendants on what she calls a long travel day.

A couple different flight attendants approached me and told me that I needed to control my child. They told me that if I couldn’t control my child then they’d have to turn the plane around. I was holding my kid in my lap and told her not to worry and that my child would go to sleep. As we were taxiing the plane, it came to a stop. The pilot said we needed to refuel, which I found strange. Then the plane turned around and they asked me to exit the plane. By that point, my son was already asleep in my lap.

She later tweeted:

@united absolutely disgusting that you would turn a plane around because of a crying fussy baby.

“An apology would be accurate and justified. I travel for a living. My band spends thousands of dollars moving around and travelling. We were treated unfairly and it needed to get out there. Now people will know the story.”